For years, car companies kept consumers in the dark about the existence of vital repairs for defects that often were available for free,” Jason Levine, the center’s executive director, said in a statement. “The center fought for decades against secret warranties and other dirty tricks of the auto manufacturers in …

January 21, 2020 For Immediate Release Contact: Jason Levine, jlevine@autosafety.org, 202-328-7700 Center for Auto Safety Achieves Victory for Transparency and Consumer Safety; Federal Government Makes Manufacturer Service Bulletins Available as Required by Law On January 13, after an almost 4 year legal battle, the Center for Auto Safety dismissed its …

“It seems impossible we’ve arrived in 2020 with no action from the federal government to protect the American people from thousands of unproven, driverless vehicles being tested on public roads,” Jason Levine, executive director at the Center for Auto Safety, said. “Worse, it’s unimaginable that nothing has been done to …

January 13, 2020 With almost 40,000 crash deaths and over 2.5 million serious injuries a year, there is no time to waste in moving forward towards deploying safe vehicle technology, be it autonomous or otherwise.  The Center for Auto Safety firmly believes AV technology will play a significant role in …

“By continuing to allow manufacturers to test whatever technology they want, wherever they want, and promoting industry-written voluntary standards while failing to issue mandatory government standards, DOT (Department of Transportation) is making the long-term public acceptance of AV technology less likely,” said Jason Levine, executive director of the nonprofit Center …

CENTER FOR AUTO SAFETY Statement on Department of Transportation and White House National Science and Technology Council’s “AV 4.0” Document, released January 8, 2020: “AV 4.0 is the perfect encapsulation of the administration’s principles on vehicle safety: say the right words and do the wrong things. Writing the word ‘safety’ …

“At some point, the question becomes: How much evidence is needed to determine that the way this technology is being used is unsafe?” said Jason Levine, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety in Washington. “In this instance, hopefully these tragedies will not be in vain and will …

“One of the questions and things to watch in the next 10 years is were lessons learned or are manufacturers going to try and set the clock backwards?” said Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a Washington-based nonprofit watchdog organization. DETROIT — Mary Barra became one of …